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TCE Physics Practice Exams with Worked Solutions
20 full-length papers · worked solutions for every question
The 20 practice exams inside the TCE Physics Mastery Pack, each set out like the real paper with a separate worked-solution guide. Open any paper to see what it covers.
- Section A (Criterion 5): projectiles launched from a raised ramp and a 2D collision vector triangle, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): point-charge fields in 2D and an electron gun, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): refraction through a prism with dispersion and critical angle, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): photoelectric data analysis and Planck's constant, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: a fictional Tasmanian adventure park (Kunanyi Ridge Adventure Park) designs a bike jump, a light show and a sensor system.
- Section question counts 6 + 6 + 6 + 6; marks 45 per section; every part shows its marks.
- Section A (Criterion 5): motion graphs for a lift and Newton's second law with up to four forces, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): parallel current-carrying conductors and the force per unit length, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): standing waves on a tensioned string and beats, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): radioactive decay of a medical isotope, activity and half-life, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: the medical physics department of a fictional regional hospital (Derwent Valley Hospital) maintains lifts, scanners and therapy equipment and handles medical isotopes.
- Section question counts 5 + 6 + 6 + 6; marks 45 per section; every part shows its marks.
- Section A (Criterion 5): horizontal circular motion with a conical-pendulum style force triangle, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): charged particles in magnetic fields and a velocity selector, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): two-source interference of radio waves and path difference, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): Compton scattering with vector photon momentum, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: a fictional radio observatory near Cambridge, Tasmania (the Coal River Radio Observatory) and its particle-physics outreach laboratory.
- Section question counts 6 + 5 + 6 + 7; marks 45 per section; every part shows its marks.
- Section A (Criterion 5): universal gravitation, two-body field null point and Kepler's third law, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): induction in a rod on rails, Lenz's law and energy transfer, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): pulses at fixed, free and string-to-string boundaries, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): energy levels, emission lines and electron excitation, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: a fictional space-science summer school at a Launceston campus studies stars, satellites and the aurora australis.
- Section question counts 6 + 6 + 7 + 5; marks 45 per section; every part shows its marks.
- Section A (Criterion 5): impulse from a force–time graph and mass-flow thrust (a hose or jet), with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): Millikan's oil-drop balance and uniform electric fields, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): open and closed pipe resonance with end effects, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): mass defect, binding energy per nucleon and fusion in stars, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: a fictional Huon Valley volunteer fire brigade tests its equipment at a school while the school band rehearses in the hall.
- Section question counts 7 + 6 + 5 + 6; marks 45 per section; every part shows its marks.
- Section A (Criterion 5): an inclined plane with friction and a velocity–time graph up and down, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): magnetic field of a straight wire, angle of dip and a compass, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): Young's double slit with two colours and coincident fringes, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): Wien's law, black bodies and photon energy, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Original paper set on a single fictional Antarctic research voyage from Hobart; every number is recomputed in Python (see exams-6-arith-check.json).
- Section A (Criterion 5): 2D explosion momentum and elastic/inelastic energy checks, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): DC motor forces, commutator and torque direction, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): polarisation by reflection and scattering, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): X-ray tube voltage, continuous and characteristic spectra, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Original paper set in one fictional vehicle-safety and engineering workshop; every number is recomputed in Python (see exams-7-arith-check.json).
- Section A (Criterion 5): vertical motion under gravity with terminal velocity, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): AC generator emf, graph of emf against time and load current, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): diffraction through harbour gaps and resolution, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): de Broglie wavelength and electron diffraction, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Original paper set on one fictional coastal hydro, wind and harbour project; every number is recomputed in Python (see exams-8-arith-check.json).
- Section A (Criterion 5): satellite orbits, geostationary altitude and weightlessness, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): Coulomb's law in a 2D arrangement of three charges, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): wave graphs, v = fλ and travelling direction from two buoys, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): fission reactor components and chain reaction energy, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Original paper set at one fictional satellite ground station and energy briefing; every number is recomputed in Python (see exams-9-arith-check.json).
- Section A (Criterion 5): work at an angle, power and energy conservation on a ski slope, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): Bainbridge mass spectrometer isotope separation, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): total internal reflection in optical fibres, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): decay series, alpha and beta equations and background radiation, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Original paper set at one fictional Tasmanian ski field and a geology dating laboratory; every number is recomputed in Python (see exams-10-arith-check.json).
- Section A (Criterion 5): projectile landing below launch height and velocity at impact, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): eddy currents and magnetic braking, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): beats between tuning forks and resonance, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): photon momentum, laser radiation pressure and photon flux, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Whole paper: a theme-park ride engineer (Sections A–C) and a laser-cooling laboratory (Section D), with every number recomputed in Python.
- Section A (Criterion 5): helicopter or drone rotor thrust from momentum change per second, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): electric fields near sharp points and lightning, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): standing waves on a guitar string: harmonics and overtones, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): the photoelectric effect at a metal surface and threshold frequency, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Whole paper: a storm-season emergency services exercise — rescue drones and supply drops, lightning and storm cells, flood-water optics and fire-station sensors.
- Section A (Criterion 5): a 2D glancing collision on an ice rink, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): cathode-ray deflection between plates and crossed fields, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): refraction of sound and seismic waves using wave speed, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): half-life by exponential treatment with decay constant, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Whole paper: a winter sports venue (Section A) and an earthquake monitoring network (Sections B–D), including seismometers, seismic-wave refraction and radon and carbon dating.
- Section A (Criterion 5): gravitational field of a binary star and Kepler's third law, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): electrons in Earth's magnetic field and the Van Allen belts, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): interference from two loudspeakers at a concert, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): line spectra of stars and absorption lines, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Whole paper: an astronomy night at a dark-sky site — binary stars and moons, the magnetosphere and aurora, an outdoor concert, and starlight spectra.
- Section A (Criterion 5): Newton's third law and connected bodies in a towing problem, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): transformers and induction qualitatively, with a moving conductor, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): two-source water waves in a ripple tank, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): nuclear reaction mass difference in u and MeV, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Whole paper: a tug-boat operation in the Derwent estuary — towing and pushing, shore power and induction, wakes and ripple-tank models, and a visiting lecture on nuclear-powered ships.
- Section A (Criterion 5): a banked-free horizontal turn: friction as the centripetal force, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): charged plates with an alpha particle moving across a field, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): closed-pipe model of the ear canal, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): electron standing waves and the Bohr–Rutherford atom, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: the Kunanyi Sports-Medicine and Audiology Clinic (a fictional clinic in Hobart) uses physics in rehabilitation, hearing tests and imaging.
- Section A (Criterion 5): rocket lift-off: thrust, weight and changing mass, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): Faraday cage and charged conductors, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): single-slit diffraction and wavelength comparison, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): Compton effect and X-ray photon wavelength shift, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: a model-rocketry outreach day at a (fictional) Midlands launch field, followed by visits to a hospital radiology department.
- Section A (Criterion 5): vector displacement at any angle for an orienteering course, then uniform acceleration, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): two perpendicular currents and the resultant flux density, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): refractive index from data and critical-angle measurement, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): binding energy curve, fission versus fusion yield, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: a bushland orienteering event in the (fictional) Meander Ranges and a school energy-policy debate on Tasmania's future electricity supply.
- Section A (Criterion 5): impulse and stopping force in a crash barrier test, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): a simple linear motor with induced back emf, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): polarising filters at different angles and glare reduction, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): ionisation, excitation by photons and electron collisions, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: a (fictional) road-safety testing centre near Launceston and a fluorescent and specialty lighting factory.
- Section A (Criterion 5): projectiles in sport with a 'derive and hence' structure, with full working, units and directions.
- Section B (Criterion 6): electron in a uniform field then a magnetic field, including at least one labelled field or force diagram.
- Section C (Criterion 7): standing waves in a sonometer and linear density, mixing calculation with a justified explanation.
- Section D (Criterion 8): nuclear medicine dosage, activity and number of atoms, with a non-routine or real-world context.
- Scenario: a (fictional) North-West Coast school's sports carnival and the regional hospital that supports it.
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